There is a common assumption in the infosec community that enormous breaches like those at Equifax, Anthem, and Target are the…
Month: January 2018
A week in security (January 15 – January 21)
Last week on Labs, we gave you some background information about cookies, specifically which ones to worry about and why. We…
Cybersecurity New Year’s resolutions, you say? Why not.
It’s mid-January, and oh, how time flies. It wasn’t long since we bid farewell to 2017 and welcomed the new year…
New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers
What you don’t see won’t hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch…
A coin miner with a “Heaven’s Gate”
You might call the last two years the years of ransomware. Ransomware was, without a doubt, the most popular type of…
Be wary of Mega Millions winner “giveaway” on social media
I don’t do lotteries, but if I did, I’d probably never, ever win in a million years. That’s not a problem…
Cookies: Should I worry about them?
We understand that the amount of information and warnings about your online privacy can be overwhelming or even confusing. With so…
A week in security (January 8 – January 14)
It’s very early in the year, yet everyone has already had a complete meltdown (pun intended) over a number of serious…
WPA3 will secure Wi-Fi connections in four significant ways in 2018
CES, the annual consumer electronics extravaganza in Las Vegas, isn’t just a showcase for virtual reality and poorly-timed power outages. It’s…
Stripchat bot spells block
Here at Malwarebytes, we spent a lot of time and effort scouring the Internet looking for malicious websites that we can…